CVE-2015-5468
Directory traversal vulnerability in the WP e-Commerce Shop Styling plugin before 2.6 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 24.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the WP e-Commerce Shop Styling plugin before 2.6 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename parameter to includes/download.php.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin WP E-Commerce Shop Styling 2.5 - Arbitrary File Download (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 37530webapps, phppublished 8 Jul 2015Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 24.1% · top 2.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ecommerce-shop-styling/#developers (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=136 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150710 Re: Remote file download vulnerability in wordpress plugin wp-ecommerce-shop-styling v2.5 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150706 Remote file download vulnerability in wordpress plugin wp-ecommerce-shop-styling v2.5 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-5423 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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